Norman Finkelstein: "Why isn't Angela Davis asking herself: 'why am I getting all these hysterical warm receptions from all of these filthy rich crooks'?"
what a fucking douche, we're somehow not allowed to talk about or act against 'intruments of state repression' until we have communism? weakening the carceral state surely has nothing to do with a revolution succeeding in the first place, does it? even if lenin was gospel, it's a misappropriation to think lenin's words apply to the capitalist state! you think he was diligently fighting to preserve the institutions of the tsar in the hope of turning their purpose around once power was taken? this is like a fucking blanquist take that is entirely undermined with how the USSR completely abolished & steadily recreated criminal justice. Lenin wouldn't like to abolish the police in a socialist state, but basically did so in the capitalist one.
Finkelstein is just possessed of the kind of blinders old leftists put up where the only path is the one i'm advocating, everything else is a distraction--this is why we invented intersectionalism but ig some dogs were too old to learn that trick
Finkelstein is just possessed of the kind of blinders old leftists put up where the only path is the one i’m advocating, everything else is a distraction–this is why we invented intersectionalism but ig some dogs were too old to learn that trick
tbh this isn't an old leftist thing. it's pretty common all over the left side of the political spectrum.
yeah, true, but the younger the better acquainted with intersectional axes and less likely to admonish a particular emphasis in someone's praxis (say with race, lgbt+, environmentalism) as "distracting" from socialist aims
i am a nonbinary person who has been told multiple times by "marxists" several years younger than me that trans rights are a bourgeois distraction keeping us from the revolution so idk if that's even true.
what a fucking douche, we're somehow not allowed to talk about or act against 'intruments of state repression' until we have communism? weakening the carceral state surely has nothing to do with a revolution succeeding in the first place, does it? even if lenin was gospel, it's a misappropriation to think lenin's words apply to the capitalist state! you think he was diligently fighting to preserve the institutions of the tsar in the hope of turning their purpose around once power was taken? this is like a fucking blanquist take that is entirely undermined with how the USSR completely abolished & steadily recreated criminal justice. Lenin wouldn't like to abolish the police in a socialist state, but basically did so in the capitalist one.
Finkelstein is just possessed of the kind of blinders old leftists put up where the only path is the one i'm advocating, everything else is a distraction--this is why we invented intersectionalism but ig some dogs were too old to learn that trick
tbh this isn't an old leftist thing. it's pretty common all over the left side of the political spectrum.
yeah, true, but the younger the better acquainted with intersectional axes and less likely to admonish a particular emphasis in someone's praxis (say with race, lgbt+, environmentalism) as "distracting" from socialist aims
i am a nonbinary person who has been told multiple times by "marxists" several years younger than me that trans rights are a bourgeois distraction keeping us from the revolution so idk if that's even true.